Interior Design: A Dream

As a kid I really wanted to be a designer when I grew up. I remember going to a party for a girl-friend, Lindsay Misch, where the theme was to dress up in what you wanted to be as a grown-up. I took some of my uncle’s color-pencil drawings because he was an amazing artist and for the night, I pretended to be a designer. I REALLY wanted to be a fashion designer. {I know some of you who know me are busting the buttons off your pants because you’re laughing so darn hard!}

I cannot draw.

I can barely choose colors that go together or compliment each other. Which means my wardrobe is pretty blah. So a fashion designer?!! Far stretch.

Plus, I just learned how to curl my hair like a Kardashian last year. Seriously.

I am not designer material.

I left those dreams in the dust a LONG time ago.

So forget the fashion designer gig. I could do some interior design.

I used to draw vases of flowers. Draw…it was more like will myself to create something that had the slightest resemblance of a vase, with flowers, on the top of a piano. I created these wonky images while I waited for my turn at piano lessons…and other places where I was incredibly bored and wished desperately to be anywhere but there. {But thanks, Mom, for the lessons!!}

In a statistics class in high school I designed rooms of a home + furniture with graph paper…so I’m actually pretty good at figuring out how to arrange {or re-arrange!} a room.

Who am I kidding. I don’t even have a clue. I have no idea of where to begin to create a cohesive space. I am fascinated by those that can. I felt dejected that night. I want so badly to be able to do this well, but I do not have that skill set.

AND….camp out on the Hunted Interior’s website….a sweet gal from GA, her taste is so close to mine {though my home looks NOTHING like hers!!}. She uses bright colors mixed in with the classics, which is right up my alley.

I guess I could hire someone, but then that’s an entirely different area that I know nothing about – how do I find someone and how do I know that the person will choose things that I will love {without having to meet a gazillion times!}? My dearest friend hired someone last year and I remember her sending me pictures of lamps asking me which one I liked best. I honestly didn’t know what to tell her…but gave her my opinion anyway. I think she ended up going with the designer’s choice…

I’m curious about y’all – Where do you start when decorating a space? Where do you get your decorating inspiration? Do you hire out for help or create spaces on your own?

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